A little more about Marcia...

Marcia E Berg Haskell is an 86 year old Spiritualist.  She is also a soul shaman, a widow, artist, photographer, and author who lives in Watertown Massachusetts. Marcia grew up in Brooklyn, New York.  She felt isolated because of residual effects from scarlet fever and poor eyesight, so she began to follow her own path. Despite the odds, she graduated from Brandeis University with a degree in Chemistry. After graduation, she worked for a  number of scientific firms in fields such as atmospheric physics and optical design and analysis. Finally, she moved into software and management. Marcia finished her career as a senior project manager.

Marcia bought her first camera at the age of 10, and it opened a new world. For the first time she could see the world clearly through the lens and from then on she has always had a camera close at hand.  Marcia’s formal interest in art began after her retirement when she took adult education classes in art, abstract photography, and writing and currently devotes her life pursuing those activities. She works with many mediums including acrylic paints, new surface textures, inks containing glitter and metallics, and unusual materials like glitter, wire and charms. Her photography focuses on the physical world and manipulations of the physical world.  Marcia had traveled extensively around the United States and her deep interest in Native American culture is apparent in her art, photography and writing. Her interests outside of her art include attending Pow Wows, reading, psychic and spiritual studies and playing with her cat, Star Man.

Marcia has had paintings and photographs juried into shows in the Cambridge Art Association and online galleries including LightSpaceTime.art, Bauhausprairieartgallery.com, Contemporaryartgalleryonline.gallery, Art-Competition.net, ArtRoomGalleryOnline.com and Fusionartps.com. She has had pieces accepted by Cape Cod Art Center, a painting in their gallery show and a photograph for the online show. She is delighted that her artwork hangs

 in many homes across the United States: Texas, Pennsylvania, Washington DC, New York City and New York state, North Caroline, Ohio, Rhode Island, and of course ,Massachusetts.

When Covid restricted us to our homes, Marcia renewed her interest in spiritual and psychic phenomena.  She began to meditate, discovered Shamanism and renewed her interest in Spiritualism where she could attend church services using Zoom.  She also started attending classes online.  Her Spiritualism Unfoldment class awakened her latent mediumship - it had been more than 40 years since she had worked from the pulpit or directed an unfoldment circle, but her guides and teachers rapidly made their presence felt and she found they were ready to help again. In October 2022 she conducted an online unfoldment circle, under the auspices of the First Spiritualist Church of Salem.  She now holds an intimate online unfoldment class.